SOR Week 10 Quiz

Schools need a consistent staircase with curriculum that builds year after year. 

PD has the potential to increase the knowledge and skills of teachers and leaders to advance the enactment of the SOR.

Elbow to elbow coaching is more effective than large scale professional development. 

It is simple to build and sustain quality, connected infrastructure for instructional improvement in reading.

If teachers engage in contextualized, elbow-to-elbow PL in partnership with a coach, they can improve instruction.

Curriculum, PD, and leadership are mutually supportive, illuminating the pillars of reading reform.

Leaders use their power, position, & agency to negatively impact changes in the nature & quality of reading instruction.

Less than half (45%) of available reading curricula were aligned with college- and career-ready standards.

Purchasing a program ensures teachers are thinking and acting similar.

Curriculum is a tool that informs the work of teachers and leaders.

Leaders need to create master schedules to ensure adequate time is scheduled for tier 1 instruction and interventions.

The 3 pillars of a well-functioning organizational structure are the principal, curriculum leader and teacher leaders.

75% of teacher prep programs cover phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.

Teachers become comfortable with their methods and materials, causing uneasiness with change. 

Balanced literacy usually has a scope and sequence.